Entrepreneurial Psychiatry
The use of concepts, knowledge, and life experiences acquired along the evolution of this area of medicine—psychiatry—, though it is a relatively new field in Brazil, has been of significant value when we talk of enterprises and entrepreneurs.
The increasingly complex world involves all those who integrate a company. Its external links to suppliers, associates, as well as the demanding and competitive external market, may sometimes obscure internal elements. These, undoubtedly, constitute the main features at work when one talks about a crisis in a corporation. When we understand that an organization is a dynamic, living organism in constant evolution, we are able to recognize that the crises, which this structure undergoes, derive from its own existence and from its life moment. We can also realize that they result from a summation of constituents that entails the mental and physical health of each and every one of its elements, especially of those directly in charge of decision-making—the executive group.
Attention to this group, caring for it, and providing early diagnosis of its conflicts can relieve pain, inhibit the flow of mistakes, and manage the company back again to its evolving and competitive position. This forms the supportive foundation of a healthy and profitable company.
Consulting Psychiatrist
M.D. Fernando Egídio Batista Oliveira
Director of Psiquiatria Integrada
Health in Entrepreneurial Management
Psychiatry, as an area of medicine that studies and treats/approaches our attitudes and feelings, is based on studies that have brought light to human knowledge. It involves itself with a group of very special persons in our society. These people—entrepreneurs, executives, and management specialists—are highly exposed and vulnerable to diseases by their own rhythm of life.
- What to do to prevent disease?
- How to enable them to face demands of modern life that their position requires?
- How to enable them to understand its functioning as a group?
- How can we help entrepreneurs and companies to be successful?
- How to decrease their affective difficulties, and look for stability in relationships?
- How to make them ready to accept changes and innovation?
These are basic conditions to balance and performance of any company. The focus of entrepreneurial psychiatry is precisely to attend to these requisites.